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NOOK Developer will be sponsoring the first ever App Zone at the London Book Fair from April 16-18. With a vibrant and growing developer community, they offer tools and recommendations on how you can develop successful apps for the NOOK.
The NOOK Apps program provides the opportunity for you to reach a vibrant and growing community of mobile app users. The past year has shown us our users are ready and willing to pay for great content. While there are many apps that stand out from the crowd, the most successful companies and apps have several things in common.
• Apps appeal to our key demographic, which is unique among mobile gadgets – 70 – 75% female, many of whom are also mothers. Children’s apps, especially learning and development is a high focal point for NOOK Apps. While gaming is our most successful category, lifestyle, education, and other apps that enhance the experience of using the device, such as customizable backgrounds are immensely popular.
We've all had a couple of weeks to recover from the madness at Mobile World Congress now, and to help you to reminisce, here is a video recap of our biggest WIPJam ever:
We're all extremely thankful for everyone who came and jam'ned with us! Like us on Facebook to find more videos of the event!
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We’re back from Barcelona! Where we had a BLAST!
With our biggest party and WIPJam EVER !!
For a very developery MWC with 19% of attendees from "development companies" !!
The multinational crowd always reminds me though of the fact that the "WIP brand" would do with a bit of clarification…
So here’s a quick guide, especially for those joining us:
We’re WIP and we are a bunch of WIPsters.. if you read this you are one too!
You probably know us for our events the WIPJams (of which WIPJam @MWC 2012 was the biggest with 1100 particpants!)
It wasn’t top secret information that BlackBerry was giving away PlayBooks to all those who attended their Developer's Conference and it was clearly one of the items that attributed to their 3 completely full sessions. Regardless, it was a good opportunity to let everyone know there is success in building on the BlackBerry platform, with 13% of devs making over $100 000.
Other stats included:
75 Million Subscribers and growing
164 markets supported and growing
14 languages supported and growing
Averaging 174 Million downloads per month and growing fast
Over 2 Billion downloads reached in January 2012
Over 60,000 apps available
As for BlackBerry 10 (not to be confused with BASIS' BBX), there was no new information. They just restated that it will support QNX native, Runtime for Android, HTML5 + Webworks and Adobe AIR. Here's their brief...
The NOOK Apps program provides the opportunity for you to reach a vibrant and growing community of mobile app users. The past year has shown us our users are ready and willing to pay for great content. While there are many apps that stand out from the crowd, the most successful companies and apps have several things in common.
It wasn’t top secret information that BlackBerry was giving away PlayBooks to all those who attended their Developer's Conference and it was clearly one of the items that attributed to their 3 completely full sessions. Regardless, it was a good opportunity to let everyone know there is success in building on the BlackBerry platform, with 13% of devs making over $100 000.